Microsoft Adding jQuery To Visual Studio 67
Tim Anderson writes "Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP of the .NET developer division, announced that the open source jQuery Javascript library will be integrated into Visual Studio, the main Windows development tool. Further, Microsoft will treat jQuery as a supported product within technical support contracts, and will use jQuery to build new controls for ASP.NET, its web platform."
And We'll Discuss It Again! (Score:5, Insightful)
Dupe (Score:1, Insightful)
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/29/0249226&from=rss [slashdot.org]
It's a week ago, though, and this doesn't include Nokia, so I can see how you'd get confused.
Re:Scary (Score:3, Insightful)
Anyone that has used VisualStudio or any of MS programming options will cringe at MS definition of "integrate".
Uh, care to elaborate on that? I've used VS before and I've actually found their integration of technologies (SOAP for example) to be quite nice. VS is one of the few MS products that hasn't turned into a completely piece of shit over the years....but I'll still take Eclipse over it any day.
Re:Dupe (Score:3, Insightful)
(Yes I read *all* post before posting this - so your revenge will have to wait)
Product Placement (Score:1, Insightful)
So what? This "story" on Slashdot's front page doesn't even bother to identify what "jQuery" is. All it does is make a press release pimping jQuery, "now with Microsoft's support!".
Re:Scary (Score:5, Insightful)
No kidding. Ever look at how AJAX is handled on .net sites created in VS? javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cphMain$lnkTotalDnsManager','')
Talk about maintainable!
I have to give credit where credit is due - master pages are pretty damn handy, but the rest of what I've worked with in VS seems like a bunch of cobbled-together nonsense produced by people who failed their programming classes with the goal of creating the slowest IDE in the history of the known universe.
Re:Yet another Microsoft ripoff (Score:2, Insightful)
parent comment is so far off base its not even funny. If you RTFA then you'd realise that:
1. jQuery is not an MS product, and has not being bought by MS.
2. jQuery is an open source product that they have no control over. They've explicitly stated they will not fork from the main trunk.
3. The reason this is news is that it is going against the track record of "Not Invented Here"
But why let reality get in the way of being able to put down MS (surprised you resisted the temptation to use a $)!
Re:Dupe (Score:5, Insightful)